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Antoine Colonna d'Istria

Antoine’s practice focuses on tax structuring and restructuring with an extensive knowledge of French, foreign and EU tax laws.

He has over 20 years’ experience in addressing complex aspects of international taxation as well as representing domestic and foreign multinational groups on complex French and cross-border tax transaction. He also acts for clients on tax audits and before the tax courts, up to Supreme Tax Court. His clients also include private equity and real estate funds, which he helps to structure the purchase of large portfolios of assets – including mortgaged and distressed debts – to secure the best possible return on investment.

Over the last years, Antoine was regularly recommended for his work on tax law by Chambers Global, The Lawyer and IFLR.

Chambers Global 2014, for instance, describes Antoine as “He's superb - very hard-working, up to speed on all the latest matters, very keen to help his clients and responsive around the clock”.

Antoine is qualified in both Paris and New York bar. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association, the tax Lawyers Institute and is the author of numerous articles related to taxation.

The proposals for the amendment of Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (commonly referred to as “DAC 6”) originally announced by the European Commission in June 2017, are now in force. The legislation aims to combat aggressive tax planning and improve tax transparency in the EU..

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised KKR, one of the largest US investment funds in the world, on the sale of around 30 assets representing a surface area of just over 86,000m² – comprising offices and telephone centers, mainly occupied by the Orange group –, to private clients grouped into a “real estate club deal” by Eternam, the real estate subsidiary of the Cyrus group..

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Altus Group, a leading provider of commercial real estate services, software and data solutions to the global commercial real estate industry, on its acquisition of Taliance Group SAS, French provider of cloud-based alternative investment software, for EUR20m..